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Sorbhog (Vidhan Sabha Constituency)
''Sorbhog Assembly constituency is one of the 126 assembly constituencies of Assam a north east state of India. Sorbhog is also part of Kokrajhar Lok Sabha constituency. Members of Legislative Assembly * 1951: Akshoy Kumar Das, Indian National Congress * 1957: Ghaneshyam Talukdar, Independent * 1962: Akshoy Kumar Das, Indian National Congress * 1967: Pranita Talukdar, Indian National Congress * 1972: Pranita Talukdar, Indian National Congress * 1978: Hemen Das, Communist Party of India (Marxist) * 1983: Hemen Das, Communist Party of India (Marxist) * 1985: Hemen Das, Communist Party of India (Marxist) * 1991: Samsul Hoque, Indian National Congress * 1996: Hemen Das, Communist Party of India (Marxist) * 2001: Samsul Hoque, Independent * 2006: Uddhab Barman, Communist Party of India (Marxist) * 2011: Ranjit Kumar Das, Bharatiya Janata Party * 2016: Ranjit Kumar Das, Bharatiya Janata Party * 2021: Manoranjan Talukdar, Communist Party of India (Marxist) Election results 2016 result ...
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Assam
Assam (; ) is a state in northeastern India, south of the eastern Himalayas along the Brahmaputra and Barak River valleys. Assam covers an area of . The state is bordered by Bhutan and Arunachal Pradesh to the north; Nagaland and Manipur to the east; Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram and Bangladesh to the south; and West Bengal to the west via the Siliguri Corridor, a wide strip of land that connects the state to the rest of India. Assamese and Boro are the official languages of Assam, while Bengali is an additional official language in the Barak Valley. Assam is known for Assam tea and Assam silk. The state was the first site for oil drilling in Asia. Assam is home to the one-horned Indian rhinoceros, along with the wild water buffalo, pygmy hog, tiger and various species of Asiatic birds, and provides one of the last wild habitats for the Asian elephant. The Assamese economy is aided by wildlife tourism to Kaziranga National Park and Manas National Park, which are ...
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List Of Constituencies Of Assam Legislative Assembly
The Assam Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the Indian state of Assam. It is housed in Dispur, the capital of Assam, geographically situated in present Western Assam region. The Legislative Assembly comprises 126 Members of Legislative Assembly, directly elected from single-seat constituencies. Its term is five years, unless sooner dissolved. History The number of constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly at the time of its inception on 7 April 1937 was 108. In 1957 it was reduced to 105. In 1962, the number of constituencies was enhanced to 114 and since 1972, it is 126. Since 1976, 8 constituencies are reserved for the Scheduled castes candidates and 16 constituencies are reserved for Scheduled tribes candidates. Dispur constituency in Kamrup Metropolitan district with 3.53 lakh voters is the largest constituency in Assam. List of Assam Legislative constituencies Following is the list of the constituencies of Assam Legislative Assembly, since the de ...
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2011 Assam Legislative Assembly Election
The 13th Assam Legislative Assembly election was held in two phases on 4 and 11 April 2011 to elect members from 126 constituencies in Assam, India. The result was announced on 13 May. BJP was accused of turning the anti-immigrant feeling in Assam into a Hindu-Muslim row. The election resulted in a landslide victory for the Indian National Congress and its incumbent Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi was sworn in for the third straight term. Tarun Gogoi became the second Chief Minister (the first was Bimala Prasad Chaliha) to be elected Chief Minister A chief minister is an elected or appointed head of government of – in most instances – a sub-national entity, for instance an administrative subdivision or federal constituent entity. Examples include a state (and sometimes a union terri ... for the third consecutive term and formed his third ministry. Results Results by Constituency References {{Assam elections 2011 State Assembly elections in India State Assembl ...
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2016 Assam Legislative Assembly Election
The Assam Legislative Assembly Election of 2016 was held in two phases, on 4 and 11 April 2016, to elect members of the 126 constituencies in Assam, a state in North-eastern India. The overall voter turnout was 84.72%, which set a new record for Assam. The turnout was an increase from the 2011 Assembly election figure of 75%. The counting of votes and results declaration was completed on 19 May 2016. The election brought a change of power as the Indian National Congress (INC), which had formed the government under Tarun Gogoi since 2001, lost its majority to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP, lit "Indian People's Party") led by Sarbananda Sonowal. Background The prior Assam assembly ended on 5 June 2016. The full bench of the Election Commission headed by Syed Nasim Ahmad Zaidi visited Assam on 21 December 2015. Voter-verified paper audit trails were introduced in 10 constituencies (approximately 2400 polling booths) in Assam assembly polls. These included the four assembly con ...
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Manoranjan Talukdar
Manoranjan Talukdar (born 21 February 1954) is an Indian politician from Assam who is currently serving as the member of the Assam Legislative Assembly representing Sorbhog constituency since 2021 as a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in term .... References Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Assam Living people Assam MLAs 2021–2026 People from Barpeta district 1954 births {{CPIndiaMarxist-politician-stub ...
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Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi, the incumbent Indian prime minister. The BJP is aligned with right-wing politics, and its policies have historically reflected a traditional Hindu nationalist ideology; it has close ideological and organisational links to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). , it is the country's largest political party in terms of representation in the Parliament of India as well as state legislatures. The party's origins lie in the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, which was founded in 1951 by Indian politician Shyama Prasad Mukherjee. After The Emergency of 1975–1977, the Jana Sangh merged with several other political parties to form the Janata Party; it defeated the then-incumbent Indian National Congress in the 1977 general election. After three years in ...
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Ranjit Kumar Das
Ranjeet Kumar Dass is a politician from the Indian state of Assam. He is a member of the Assam Legislative Assembly from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was elected as Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly in 2016, when Sarbananda Sonowal became Chief Minister. He became a member of the BJP in 1992 and was elected as Member of Legislative Assembly from Sorbhog Sarbhog (also spelt as Sorbhog) is a town and a town area committee in Barpeta district in the Indian state of Assam. It is located on the banks of river Beki and is known for the century-old temple of lord Krishna known as "Gorokhiya Gohainr ... in Barpeta district in 2011. From 2011 to 2016, he was the deputy leader of the BJP in the Assam Legislative Assembly. He was elected as the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly in June 2016. He served as BJP Assam President from 30 January to 26 June 2021. After the 2021 Assam Assembly Elections he was made a minister in Himanta Biswa Sarma's cabinet. Referen ...
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Uddhab Barman
Uddhab Barman is an Indian communist politician. He was the former Assam State Committee Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) and a Member of the Legislative Assembly of Assam, elected from the Sorbhog constituency. He was elected to the Lok Sabha twice from Barpeta, in 1991 and 1996. He was a member of the Central Committee Central committee is the common designation of a standing administrative body of Communist party, communist parties, analogous to a board of directors, of both ruling and nonruling parties of former and existing socialist states. In such party org ... of CPI(M). He is married to Madhuri Devi. References Communist Party of India (Marxist) politicians from Assam Tripuri people Living people India MPs 1991–1996 India MPs 1996–1997 Lok Sabha members from Assam Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidates in the 2014 Indian general election Assam MLAs 2006–2011 People from Barpeta 1944 births {{CPIndiaMarxist-politic ...
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Communist Party Of India (Marxist)
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (abbreviated as CPI(M)/CPIM/CPM) is a Marxism–Leninism, Marxist–Leninist communist List of political parties in India, political party in India. It is the largest communist party of India in terms of membership and electoral seats and one of the List of political parties in India#National parties, national parties of India. The party emerged from a split in the Communist Party of India (CPI) on 7 November 1964. CPI(M) is a part of ruling alliances in three states — the Left Democratic Front (Kerala), Left Democratic Front in Kerala, Mahagathbandhan (Bihar), Mahagathbandhan in Bihar, and the Secular Progressive Alliance in Tamil Nadu. CPIM has representation in the legislative assemblies of 8 states. The All-India Party Congress is the supreme authority of the Communist Party of India (Marxist). However, during the time between two party congresses, the Central Committee is the highest decision-making body. The Central Committee ...
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (Hindi: ), is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the southwest, and the Bay of Bengal on the southeast, it shares land borders with Pakistan to the west; China, Nepal, and Bhutan to the north; and Bangladesh and Myanmar to the east. In the Indian Ocean, India is in the vicinity of Sri Lanka and the Maldives; its Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Thailand, Myanmar, and Indonesia. Modern humans arrived on the Indian subcontinent from Africa no later than 55,000 years ago., "Y-Chromosome and Mt-DNA data support the colonization of South Asia by modern humans originating in Africa. ... Coalescence dates for most non-European populations average to between 73–55 ka.", "Modern human beings—''Homo sapiens''—originated in Africa. Then, int ...
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Hemen Das
In Egyptian mythology, Hemen was a falcon– god. Places of worship Often worshipped as a divine entity unified with Horus, as Horus-Hemen lord of Asphynis or Horakhte-Hemen of Hefat. Flinders Petrie refers to Hemen as a god of Tuphium. Hemen is also used for the name of a town of ancient Egypt (as mentioned by Flinders Petrie during his studies of Abydos). Some examples of artifacts containing references to Hemen Hemen is mentioned in a limited number of inscriptions and texts. Some of these include: * In the Pyramid Texts, Utterance 231. * Ankhtifi, a nomarch (= provincial governor) dated to the First Intermediate Period, is shown inspecting a fleet, killing a hippopotamus in Hefat during festivities and offering the hippopotamus to Hemen. * A round-topped stela from the 13th dynasty invokes Ptah-Sokari-Osiris and Horus-Hemen lord of Asphynis. The stela was formerly in the V. Golenishchev collection, but is now in Moscow, in the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. * T ...
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